Archnet-IJAR: Volume 16 Issue 3

Shaping health and well-being in a COVID era: the role of design

Abimbola Asojo, Hoa Vo, Thomas Fisher, Virajita Singh

In this study, an interdisciplinary research team at a Midwest US University collaborated with a local county to co-envision interior design strategies for five county buildings…

The changing context of walking behavior: coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic in urban neighborhoods

Aynaz Lotfata, Ayse Gul Gemci, Bahar Ferah

It is observed that the COVID-19 Pandemic mostly restricts people's movement and walking habits. In this direction, this study aims to highlight how the walking behaviors of…

Designers' perceptions of biophilia and testing of the biophilic interior design matrix in China

Beth McGee, Xu Jin, Nam-Kyu Park, Skylar Ball, April Carr

The Biophilic Interior Design Matrix (BID-M) was created to assist designers with identifying biophilic interior design features for optimizing nature integration for…

A qualitative study on how Danish landscape architectural firms understand and work with accessibility

Marie Christoffersen Gramkow, Marcus Tang Merit, Ulrika Karlsson Stigsdotter

During the past decade, Danish policies and legislation have increasingly focused on accessibility, which, by virtue of adopting the UN Sustainable Development Goals, has spurred…

Gendered sense of safety and coping strategies in public places: a study in Atatürk Meydanı of Izmir

Fatma Şenol

A threatened sense of safety in public spaces is a problem for liveable communities. For better public policies, this study investigates multi-dimensional and multi-scalar aspects…

Design strategies and health planning to improve the primary health care environment: a case study in Brazil

Monica Moscatelli

The research outlined in this paper highlights the importance of certain factors related to primary health care buildings’ physical environment, such as the facility size, the…

Sensory spaces: sensory living – studio teaching the design of autism-friendly adult accommodation

Joan Scott Love

The study aims to evaluate: (1) How university students from interior architecture can create a forward-looking “Sensory Living” brief informed by both external autism experts and…

Sustainable embodied experience in the built environment: reinterpreting architectural history through embodied cognition

Sanghee Lee

Architectural history is the fundamental resource that informs the essence of architecture and design thinking; however, education does not appear to link history to design…

Architecture and the imaginary: text stimulus to improve students' creativity with nonlinear design process

Eun Joo Park, Dong-Hyun Kim, Mi Jeong Kim

This study aims to examine whether a text stimulus could enhance students' imagination and thus enhance their creativity in the architectural design studio. The assumption is that…

Postgraduate disciplinary trends in architecture: mapping master theses in Jordan

Marwa Al Khalidi, Sana'a Al-Rqaibat, Yasmein Okour

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the postgraduate disciplinary trends in architecture in Jordan. It highlights current research topics in master theses of architecture…

Contested identities, contested building: planning for a glocal future

Jennifer Shelby, Georgia Lindsay, Claire Derr

Iconic buildings, especially museums, are often enrolled in creating an identity for cities, yet cities and museums have been sometimes uneasy partners in using architecture to…

The FIX-up mix-up; undue façadism or adaptive reuse? Examining the former FIX brewery transformation into the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens

Evangelia Tsilika, Ioannis Vardopoulos

This study aims to examine the rehabilitation project of the iconic urban industrial building in Athens, “FIX” brewery, and the practices followed, so as to initiate a discussion…